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  1. I'm just now getting to this show as well so you're not alone. The Thomsons back story really bothered me and takes me out of the show because it doesn't add up with what we were shown. They say they were trying to help their beloved child with a dreaded disease. But they did taps on him with no anesthesia, not even a local?? Why would they film that?? What's the experimental value of THAT?? When Jessica calls the University of Manchester, the prof she speaks to is clearly flipped out and disgusted by whatever experiments they conducted. Not exactly the reaction you'd expect to people valiantly trying to save their child. And as has been pointed out there were other children in the videos, not just Kilgrave. This whole plot point is a real mess for me. Overall though I really enjoy the show. I'm not a superhero/ Marvel Universe fan, this is actually the first thing I've seen from that franchise including the movies (with the exception of the first Iron Man). Everything I know about it has just seeped into my consciousness via pop culture. Even with no background in it, the series stands up well as it's own thing for me. The only part that required some reference point in the source material was the Eastman (entirely pointless waste of time) subplot. Tallent is killing it, the Trish character is probably my favorite on the show, and I appreciate that almost everyone on the show with the exception of her, Hope, and Malcolm are some degree of asshole. I haven't been able to truly binge it because it's so dark I can only take an episode or two at a time before I have to run off and watch Victoria for awhile. Good show
  2. @hnygrl - preach! The whole season felt off, the ending was downright insulting, and you've done a great job explaining why. I'm 50 and I watched with my 20yo son. He couldn't understand why it seemed the kids had just met their moms. Sure, absent any history maybe you'd think they need more supervision and support but all of them have known both women all their lives. They know Frankie's a flake and that Grace won't ask for help. Neither I nor #2 son could figure out why they'd all become so suddenly and simultaneously stupid. Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston have almost no chem but I did see a glimmer of it early this season, for a moment I could see what Robert and Sol see in each other...then the writers went and threw a wrench in it with the therapist. And it was a bit unsettling that V from OITNB was doling out marital advice. lol The men can get off my screen next season except for family get togethers. I only want to see them in relationship to Grace and Frankie and the kids, I have no interest at all in their lives apart from that. It just seems like the writers this year had the attention span of a squirrel -- dropped plots, aimless narrative, and people behaving OOC. Maybe the rhythm of this show is every other season is either wha??? and/ or meh.
  3. It is confusing and apparently it IS a PBS member perk to have the whole thing now. I have a friend in the DC market who is done with it because he got it all - he had no idea why but there the full season was on his Roku, same as happened to me. I'm in Houston and am on the finale.
  4. I don't think so - usually PBS gets their shows up the day after they air but this one apparently dropped all at once. I discovered it because I'd missed the first two and wanted to catch up.
  5. Not sure where - or if - I should post this but the entire season is up on the PBS channel on my Roku. I don't know if it's just a mistake on their end that hasn't been caught yet or what but I'm at E8. I hope I'm not spoiling anything but those who are impatient like me might want to check it out.
  6. And I'm not exactly convinced there should be a ton of heat between Sol and Robert anyway - they are newly out but not new, they've been sleeping together for 20 years. It follows for me to have them presented a loving, happy, and generally content couple and that's what I've seen. I don't think sizzling chem is the right choice at this stage, trying to figger out how to live together and how they navigate the family politics is sensible.
  7. Sissy Spacek should only be shot from the mid-line up, never from below. Her nose is disturbing. I loved the show. I tuned in for Kyle and he was as excellent as I expected but the revelation was Ben Mendelsohn. Powerhouse performance. The narrative arc of the character for us to see him as kind of a fuck up then going thru a redemptive phase before descending into the kind of guy who ruminates obsessively over a 25 yo tape of his sibling throwing him under the bus and just wants to burn them all down is in the writing. But the creation of a character who is at once sympathetic and repulsive, pathetic and menacing, compelling and creepy was all on Mendelsohn. I can't imagine this character being as well done, with all of those layers and all that depth, by someone else. I'll definitely be watching for more from him. I didn't mind the slow pace, I actually liked it. For me this was the kind of show I didn't truly binge...I'd watch an episode or two, walk away and think about it for a few days, then go back for more. That said, I'd have been happier if they just left this as a limited run and ended it. I don't need Danny 2.0 and I don't need the fall out (both legal and emotional) from the murder. I can write my own and be perfectly happy with that. I'll be back for S2 anyway.
  8. Danny, through the entire series, has been playing a very long game. He's been Hoovering up info about everyone, making very clear that he has it, and is absolutely not afraid to use it. Sun Tsu wrote to never fight on death ground and that's where the siblings went wrong. At this point Danny has nothing left to lose - he knows John was willing to let him die, he's marked for death over the missing drugs, Mom and Meg have thrown their lot in with the rest of the family, Kevin has always hated him and has the untraceable revolver. Some men just want to watch the world burn but Danny gets that and something even more delish on what he knows is the way out - he turns his siblings into what he's always been, a person carting around an awful weight...some of which he made himself and some of which was unfairly tethered to him by others. The big ugly family secret that's been corroding the family from the inside doesn't die with him, in fact he gives them a whole new sibling death and cover up to deal with - one far worse than what went down with Sarah. Awesomely gothic and twisty and fun. Gonna be sorry to see this series end.
  9. I absolutely loved this episode, best hour of TV I've seen since Breaking Bad. No, I didn't think Danny killed Janie but the tension was well executed. From the creepy-incest vibe between them to John's panic that he'd once again oh-so-screwed up (honestly, dude, when are you gonna get you're an amateur next to Danny?), just superb performances and writing. Then we the viewers were also double crossed by the siblings...John's going to the DEA, Meg and Kevin doing a snatch and dump behind his back, but NO that was the plan all along. If Ben Medelsohn doesn't get an Emmy nom, I'm gonna be pissed. The whole series he's walked this line making us alternately pity him and fear him. Really amazing work.
  10. My impression was Frank and Claire both had sex with Meecham. It was one of the creepier plots last season, the way they basically groomed him thru multiple episodes. I didn't even see what they were doing until they all tumbled into bed together and then traced back the set up (and shuddered). Clever writing. I think the point was, for lack of a better term, re-establishing the pair bond. They've always been shown as close and intimate, planning and plotting together, but not as sexually connected although that would certainly be part of their relationship - not a major part but part. I've always gotten the message that Frank plays for both teams and that Claire is cool with that.
  11. I agree the politics of AmWorks is nonsense but I gave up on logic back when Frank ascended to the presidency. His path could make sense in the parliamentary system the show is based on, in ours it comes across as convoluted and silly (anyone ambitious enough to be president isn't walking away from it over something so inside baseball and convoluted most of the American public won't even understand it - hell, I only half understood it and I watch the show).
  12. But it doesn't really stand alone I don't think - without it, a viewer would start S6 wondering why Carson and Mrs. Hughes are married, where Rose and Atticus went, when and how Anna got out of jail (if you gave a tinker's damn, that is), and why the infatuated Prince Kirov disappeared.
  13. I guess I'm confused...to me a Christmas special would be be a stand alone episode that doesn't impact the larger arc of the stories or introduce anything important so if you miss it no harm/no foul. This to me was a season finale - is it not called that because there's a break in the UK between E8 and this? Oy the dumb soup story line - even the Dowager Countess was facepalming over the ridiculousness with her servants. No kidding, I literally LOLd when they went there. I'm sure she'll be consumptive next season. Speaking of lonely tables, I'll sit over here at mine being unhappy about Carson and Mrs. Hughes. It was out of left field and I loved that they were professional allies and supportive friends, much the same way I love Tom's dynamic with Mary and Edith. It's not necessary that a close relationship between someone with a Tab A and another with a Slot B must automatically morph into romance. It could just as well have been Carson puts her on the deed saying they're partners - he'll put in the money and she'll earn her equity helping him in finding contractors, managing the B&B, and supervising the maid of all work. Overall a satisfying episode though. I'll miss Tom, Sybbie and Rose but I suspect with the time jump (however long it is) we'll get at least the former two back at Downton at some point.
  14. Well that was excellent, I agree best of the S3 so far. Was getting a little bored but now it's on. If we can just get the whole Rachel subplot shitcanned and spend that time on the Underwoods shredding each other, I'd be a happy girl. Mendoza called it - Claire was in over her head, inexperienced and not temperamentally suited and boy did it blow up on Frank. It's not even mendable what she did, it's just a disaster in every possible way. I can't even imagine what Frank's going to do with her now. Remember back in S1 she torpedoed his legislation because she was wasn't getting her funds for the NGO. It's not like she's ever been anything else...they're a team to the extent she gets what she wants.
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